Lexicon asótia: unsavedness, i.e. wastefulness Original Word: ἀσωτία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: asótia Phonetic Spelling: (as-o-tee'-ah) Short Definition: wantonness, profligacy Definition: wantonness, profligacy, wastefulness. HELPS word-Studies 810 asōtía (from 1 /A "without" and 4982 /sṓzō, "save") – properly, what can't be saved (waste); (figuratively) prodigality, spiritual wastefulness due to excessive behavior and the dire consequences it brings. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and sózóDefinitionunsavedness, i.e. wastefulness NASB Translationdissipation (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 810: ἀσωτίαἀσωτία, ἀσωτίας, ἡ (the character of an ἄσωτος, i. e. of an abandoned man, one that cannot be saved, from σαόω, σόω equivalent to σῴζω ( ἄσωτος, Curtius, § 570); hence, properly, incorrigibleness), an abandoned, dissolute, life; profligacy, prodigality ( R. V. riot]: Ephesians 5:18; Titus 1:6; 1 Peter 4:4; ( Proverbs 28:7; 2 Macc. 6:4. Plato, rep. 8, p. 560 e.; Aristotle, eth. Nic. 4, 1, 5 (3), p. 1120{a}, 3; Polybius 32, 20, 9; 40, 12, 7; cf. Cicero, Tusc. 3, 8; Herodian, 2, 5, 2 (1, Bekker edition), and elsewhere). Cf. Tittmann i., p. 152f; ( Trench, § xvi.).
Strong's excess, debauchery From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of sozo; properly, unsavedness, i.e. (by implication) profligacy -- excess, riot. see GREEK a see GREEK sozo |
